Georges COURTELINE. - Lot 93

Georges COURTELINE. Three manuscripts; in in-4 cardboard folder and slipcase. [Roland Dorgelès had succeeded Courteline at the Académie Goncourt. Goncourt]. Autograph manuscript (5 pages in-4, edges chipped). Amusing reminiscences of his life as a civil servant at the Direction des Cultes (the end is missing). Autograph manuscript [Le Drame de l'Avenue d'Antin] (5 pages oblong in-8), beginning (scenes 1 and 2) of this one-act play; with a copyist's manuscript of the complete play (cahier in- 4, title and 14 ff.), the first few ff. of which are torn off to be replaced by the new autograph version. Copyist's manuscript (Agence de copies H. Compère) with autograph corrections and additions (notebook in-4, 39 pages), of a talk on his literary beginnings, evoking in particular Th. de Banville and Paul Arène, the Chat-Noir with Mac-Nab and Caran d'Ache, etc.; on the covers, autograph calculations.